A serious, legitimate question...

While I like a couple of their songs, I am by no means a fan, BUT, I don't understand all the hate for Nickelback?
There are PLENTY of bands that deserve derision, mostly Perry, GAGAG, Grande(the singer, not the coffee) Madonna, etc.

What am I missing?

I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!

The only music I hate is listening to somebody else's music since they are playing it so loud. Otherwise, if I don't like it then I don't buy it. My taste, or yours, is certainly not the gold standard for music appreciation.

5) My favorite soft drink was (the now discontinued) Canadian Spirit White Cola.

Never heard of it, must of been an eastern Canada thing.

6) I saw every episode of SCTV from 1980-1982.

You missed a LOT of good stuff then...

Anyways, Nickleback has quite a few good songs, my personal faves are Never Again and Burn It To The Ground. Decent band...enough edge too. Rush sucks by the way and yes I'm Canadian...if my avatar isn't proof enough!

Considering you responded to me, I am going to bite my tongue no longer and be a grammar "not see" (%$#@ vanilla)
for a moment: must HAVE or must'VE, not "must of"!!! And that goes for "should of", "could of", and "would of". And while we are on the subject, I have seen "you're" spelled as "your" at least 50 times on here in the last week alone. MAKE IT STOP!!! *:2_guns_firing_emoticon:*

I do, however appreciate the fact that you didn't put a space after your ellipsis as people tend to do online. HAHAHA

And, it's NICKELBACK. It should be spelled like "nickel", not "pickle". *Takes a breath.*

I didn't say that was the ONLY SCTV I saw. Just that I saw EVERYTHING in that time-frame.

Now, as far as comparing Rush to Nickelback? That's like comparing Led Zeppelin to an all female Kingdom Come tribute band. HAHAHAHAHA

I don't really know much about them but even I know what their name means. HAHA One of the band members used to work in a coffee shop and their most popular offering was 95 cents, so whenever he rang someone up, people would pay with a dollar and he would say "Here's your nickel back."

I see them as a three-man Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. I will admit, I only know about 8 of their songs post-"Moving Pictures", and about 15 songs previous, along with all of "2112". (Which probably makes me a cliche.) I use side one of "Moving Pictures" as one of my main reference CD's when comparing audio.

Nickelback's first two albums were more hard rock than anything else. The State was their second album and included several songs off the first one. As they continued to grow in popularity, their songs became generic, repetitive, formulaic pop masterpieces that changed the band from rock to sellouts in most eyes.

5) My favorite soft drink was (the now discontinued) Canadian Spirit White Cola.

Never heard of it, must of been an eastern Canada thing.

6) I saw every episode of SCTV from 1980-1982.

You missed a LOT of good stuff then...

Anyways, Nickleback has quite a few good songs, my personal faves are Never Again and Burn It To The Ground. Decent band...enough edge too. Rush sucks by the way and yes I'm Canadian...if my avatar isn't proof enough!

I for one don’t understand it, I have seen them twice (wife loves them) they put on a rocking good show, they did a killer tribute to Dime Bag (Pantera) after he was killed on stage..

With that said I always told my wife they are the Def Leppard of this generation as Radio just over played them just like Def Leppard back in the day I absolutely hated it....

For the record I love Def Leppard’s first two albums, On Through The Night, and High and Dry..

I remember that Damageplan show..A friend and myself had tickets to that one,but I had to renig because a night fiber cutover came up and I had to take care of business that night..He took mine and went with another buddy...what he told me about it the next day wasn't too cool....I have to agree...High And Dry was their finest..believe they were just kids when they cut that album....